May kicks off our green season weather, which also means it’s peak variety season and peak meatfish season in regards to offshore fishing. The 2018 year has been the best dorado year in the past decade and the second consecutive year of wide open tuna fishing, so I was extremely confident that this green season is going be a great one. Below is our Costa Rica Fishing Report – May 2018.
The first week of May started off with a flurry of billfish bites, in fact it was some of the best numbers we saw in all of 2018 with many boats seeing double digit sailfish. After that the offshore fishing returned to what is normally does this time of year – the occasional marlin, a couple of sailfish each day, and just about as many dorado and tuna as you can handle. CAF guest Hal wanted his wife to catch her first sailfish, and instead they caught 12 fishing out of Los Suenos. Repeat guests the Neisel’s wouldn’t let a newborn baby stop them from coming back as they landed sailfish and their first yellow-fin tunas. Honeymooners April & JW caught just about everything in the ocean as they finished their week with 8 sailfish, 4 roostersfish (including one beautiful trophy fish), 2 dorado, and 8 grouper. Finally 3x repeat guests the Mott’s visited Costa Rica for the first time after fishing Belize with us twice, and they were both feeling ‘pura vida’ after a week of fishing in Guanacaste. They caught rainbow bass in front of Lake Arenal, a lot of big yellow-fin tuna, grouper, and a couple of beautiful roosters.

Below is our full day-by-day Costa Rica Fishing Report – May 2018.

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My parents got tired of all the April blizzards in Wisconsin so they paid us another visit early last month.  My dad has never caught a tarpon before, so our first stop was to head to Tortuguero and get out fishing with my good buddy and legendary guide, Primo. I’ve fished our Caribbean Coast enough to know a perfect day when I see one, and the conditions could not have been any better.  Glass clam seas, sunshine, not a drop of rain, and all the tarpon you could handle.  In eight hours we saw well over 100 tarpon rolling near the Rio Colorado rivermouth, and we were lucky enough to trick a dozen of them into biting our jigs.  As is always the case with tarpon fishing, you lose at least as many as you actually land, but that’s part of the fun. We finished our day with 12 tarpon jumped and 3 released, including one right a the final buzzer as we released him at 5 PM right outside of Tortuguero.

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